Nuclear-encoded factors associated with the chloroplast transcription machinery of higher plants

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Yu, Qing Bo ^a   Huang, Chao ^a   Yang, Zhong Nan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional modules; NEP; PEP; Plastid transcription; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926469601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00316     Document Type: Review

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